Category: Pakistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday defended the government’s foreign policy performance under his watch, saying the world was no longer “blindly” buying the Indian narrative due to Islamabad’s successful efforts to counter negative perceptions. Addressing an event tiled ‘Vision FO’ in Islamabad, he said a Strategic Communications Division was set up at the […]

Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani on Monday said security for slain seminary head, Maulana Dr Adil Khan, had been discussed multiple times but the provincial government was unable to provide the same because its hands were tied by a 2018 Supreme Court order by former chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar. Ghani’s statement comes two days […]

Police have arrested the main suspect in the rape and murder of a minor girl in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district, it emerged on Monday. The chief minister’s adviser on information, Kamran Bangash, and provincial Law Minister Sultan Muhammad Khad confirmed the development at a press conference in Peshawar. On Saturday, the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Zainab, […]

PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lambasted the PTI government on Friday for its “undemocratic attitude” and for “using [state] institutions as political props”. In a press conference in Karachi, a visibly charged Bilawal criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan for reiterating that all state institutions, including the army, stand by him. “I believe that Imran Khan should […]

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday directed authorities to give the custody of 10 Afghan children, who were smuggled into Pakistan, to the Afghan consulate and ensure they are reunited with their parents. The bench also told authorities to gather information about the children and submit it in the court. The case, which was […]

ISLAMABAD: Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court on Thursday observed that neither the Constitution nor any law entitled judges or senior members of the armed forces to receive plots or pieces of land. “It is trite, but needs restating that judges are not empowered to make law; they simply interpret it and if […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said the opposition parties’ real issue with the military was that unlike other institutions, they were unable to “control” the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after the agency “found out” about their alleged corruption. Addressing a ceremony organised by the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) in Islamabad, he said PML-N supremo and […]

Pakistan has said that Hong Kong’s affairs are an internal matter of China, underscoring the importance of not interfering in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. Pakistan made the comments while speaking on behalf of 55 countries at a UN panel, in response to a statement by Germany urging China to respect the rights of Uighur Muslims […]

Police in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Mirpur city arrested the son of a former chief justice of the AJK Supreme Court, Chaudhry Ibrahim Zia, for allegedly harassing a woman for the past two years in Muzaffarabad, it emerged on Wednesday. The arrest of the suspect, Arsalan Zia, who is a BS-17 ad-hoc employee in […]

Information Minister Shibli Faraz on Wednesday reiterated that the government and Prime Minister Imran Khan did not have anything to do with the FIR against former premier Nawaz Sharif and 40 other PML-N leaders for “conspiring” against the state. Responding to a question while speaking to the media in Karachi, he said: “We have nothing to do […]